Here are some web trends for 2020:
Responsive web design in 2020 should be a given because every serious project that you create should look good and be completely usable on all devices. But there’s no need to over-complicate things.
Web Development in 2020: What Coding Tools You Should Learn article gives an overview of recommendations what you learn to become a web developer in 2020.
You might have seen Web 3.0 on some slides. What is the definition of web 3 we are talking about here?
There seems to be many different to choose from… Some claim that you need to blockchain the cloud IOT otherwise you’ll just get a stack overflow in the mainframe but I don’t agree on that.
Information on the web address bar will be reduced on some web browsers. With the release of Chrome 79, Google completes its goal of erasing www from the browser by no longer allowing Chrome users to automatically show the www trivial subdomain in the address bar.
You still should target to build quality web site and avoid the signs of a low-quality web site. Get good inspiration for your web site design.
Still a clear and logical structure is the first thing that needs to be turned over in mind before the work on the website gears up. The website structure for search robots is its internal links. The more links go to a page, the higher its priority within the website, and the more times the search engine crawls it.
You should upgrade your web site, but you need to do it sensibly and well. Remember that a site upgrade can ruin your search engine visibility if you do it badly. The biggest risk to your site getting free search engine visibility is site redesign. Bad technology selection can ruin the visibility of a new site months before launch. Many new sites built on JavaScript application frameworks do not benefit in any way from the new technologies. Before you go into this bandwagon, you should think critically about whether your site will benefit from the dynamic capabilities of these technologies more than they can damage your search engine visibility. Well built redirects can help you keep the most outbound links after site changes.
If you go to the JavaScript framework route on your web site, keep in mind that there are many to choose, and you need to choose carefully to find one that fits for your needs and is actively developed also in the future.
JavaScript survey: Devs love a bit of React, but Angular and Cordova declining. And you’re not alone… a chunk of pros also feel JS is ‘overly complex’
Keep in mind the recent changes on the video players and Google analytics. And for animated content keep in mind that GIF animations exists still as a potential tool to use.
Keep in mind the the security. There is a skill gap in security for many. I’m not going to say anything that anyone who runs a public-facing web server doesn’t already know: the majority of these automated blind requests are for WordPress directories and files. PHP exploits are a distant second. And there are many other things that are automatically attacked. Test your site with security scanners.
APIs now account for 40% of the attack surface for all web-enabled apps. OWASP has identified 10 areas where enterprises can lower that risk. There are many vulnerability scanning tools available. Check also How to prepare and use Docker for web pentest . Mozilla has a nice on-line tool for web site security scanning.
The slow death of Flash continues. If you still use Flash, say goodbye to it. Google says goodbye to Flash, will stop indexing Flash content in search.
Use HTTPS on your site because without it your site rating will drop on search engines visibility. It is nowadays easy to get HTTPS certificates.
Write good content and avoid publishing fake news on your site. Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy,
Think to who you are aiming to your business web site to. Analyze who is your “true visitor” or “power user”. A true visitor is a visitor to a website who shows a genuine interest in the content of the site. True visitors are the people who should get more of your site and have the potential to increase the sales and impact of your business. The content that your business offers is intended to attract visitors who are interested in it. When they show their interest, they are also very likely to be the target group of the company.
Should you think of your content management system (CMS) choice? Flexibility, efficiency, better content creation: these are just some of the promised benefits of a new CMS. Here is How to convince your developers to change CMS.
Here are some fun for the end:
Did you know that if a spider creates a web at a place?
The place is called a website
Confession: How JavaScript was made.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://joinmastodon.org/apps
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Freddie deBoer:
Twitter is probably not going anywhere, and writers bemoaning its demise are overestimating the importance it has to their work and careers — and Twitter is probably not going anywhere — So: I don’t think Twitter is going anywhere, and I don’t think the vast majority of Twitter users are going anywhere.
I Assure You, Writers Would Be Fine Without Twitter
and Twitter is probably not going anywhere
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/i-assure-you-writers-would-be-fine
Tomi Engdahl says:
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A list of things journalism loses if Twitter goes away: real-time feedback on stories, news outlets being publicly called out, DMs as a reporting tool, and more — Goodbye to screenshotted best bits, DMs, “that tweet should be a story”… “If Twitter goes away my job would actually be really different,” I told my husband this week.
11 (and counting) things journalism loses if Elon Musk destroys Twitter
Goodbye to screenshotted best bits, DMs, “that tweet should be a story”…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/11/losing-twitter-hurts-journalism/
“If Twitter goes away my job would actually be really different,” I told my husband this week.
“You mean like you’ll actually have to do work?” he said.
NO, I mean that if Twitter goes away, Journalism Today loses a bunch of really concrete things! And here they are: A list of things that journalism will lose, and ways that it will change, if Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter leads to its shutdown.
The version of the story below includes embedded tweets. I’ve saved a second version that includes tweet screenshots so that we can preserve this post if tweet embeds stop working.
Real-time feedback, criticism, and perspectives on stories
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk’s changes at Twitter threaten to set up a showdown with Apple and Google over in-app purchases for subscriptions and content moderation issues — Elon Musk’s plan to turn Twitter into more of a subscription service threatens to set up a showdown with Apple and Google.
Twitter’s Survival as a Subscription Service Depends on Apple and Google
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-11-20/apple-google-to-serve-as-gatekeepers-and-beneficiaries-of-8-twitter-blue-laph0obf
Elon Musk’s plan to turn Twitter into more of a subscription service threatens to set up a showdown with Apple and Google.
Assuming Twitter Inc. can weather its chaotic start under Elon Musk, the platform is poised to become more of a subscription business—with far leaner operations and less moderation. But that sets the stage for yet another challenge: a possible standoff with Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google over fees and content.
The vast majority of users access Twitter on iPhones and Android devices. Apple and Google safeguard those products and operate the payment systems on their respective app marketplaces. After a botched debut, Twitter plans to relaunch Twitter Blue—a subscription plan that offers verification to any paying customer—at $8 per month on Nov. 29.
That means Apple and Google both stand to benefit: The new Twitter Blue costs $3 more per month than the last version, will likely be heavily marketed and—ideally—offer features that many users will deem worthwhile. That includes Twitter’s famous blue check and the ability to appear higher in search results. If the rollout goes well, it will drive more revenue to Twitter but also to the tech giants.
That’s because both Apple and Google take a commission on subscriptions purchased on their platforms. For Apple, that’s a 30% cut (reduced to 15% after year one per subscriber). For Google, that’s a 15% slice from the beginning.
Twitter is trending toward 250 million daily active users. Let’s assume that 1% of that user base—2.5 million people—subscribe on either iOS or Android. Excluding additional subscription products within Twitter, that adds up to $72 million in year one revenue for Apple and $36 million for Google.
That figure is obviously immaterial financially to either Apple or Google, but could be seen as a costly commission to Musk, who has acknowledged that he overpaid for the social network. The fees, therefore, could put Musk at odds with the app store operators.
The billionaire has long criticized Apple’s fees, calling them a “tax on the internet” and saying they are “10 times higher” than they should be. Even within the last few days, he tweeted that “app store fees are obviously too high due to the iOS/Android duopoly.”
If he can get Twitter in a more stable condition, I’d expect a war of words to flare up.
Apple already allowed Netflix and business apps to take signups that way, but it hasn’t made the provision for social media. So what happens if Musk attempts to circumvent Apple’s in-app purchasing with Twitter Blue? Such a scenario could set off a Fortnite-like battle.
But there’s an even bigger issue than fees that could irk Apple and Google: content moderation. Twitter has fired many of the contractors who worked on policing misinformation and hate speech, and executives overseeing that effort have either fled or been laid off.
Musk has been clear about his desire to increase free speech on Twitter, but that’s brought a downside. In just the last few weeks, some users have seen an increase of racism, antisemitic rhetoric and scams on Twitter.
And Musk’s decision to give verification badges to any paying user—with no real approval process—led to a wave of impersonation.
With Twitter Blue set for a reboot later this month, the company is trying to iron out these problems. That includes requiring new accounts to wait 90 days to subscribe to Twitter Blue, meaning a troll can’t hop on the platform and instantly start using a blue check to impersonate someone.
But if Twitter can’t get its content-moderation house in order, Apple and Google may step in as gatekeepers. After all, they’ve previously removed social networks, including Parler, from their platforms for that reason.
So there are two potential scenarios in which the app stores block Twitter: if it tries to circumvent in-app purchases and if it doesn’t police its content to the satisfaction of Apple and Google. That means the road to Musk creating a successful subscription service runs right through those two tech giants.
Still, I expect Apple and Google to give Twitter an unusual amount of leeway. Twitter’s brand and importance remain strong
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Mark Niquette / Bloomberg:
Donald Trump says he sees “a lot of problems at Twitter”, doesn’t see any reason to return, and plans to stick to Truth Social — Donald Trump said he sees “a lot of problems at Twitter” and will stick to his own social-media platform, offering an initial response to Elon Musk’s poll …
Trump Cites Twitter ‘Problems,’ Says He’ll Stick to Own Platform
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-19/trump-cites-twitter-problems-says-he-ll-stick-to-own-platform
Donald Trump said he sees “a lot of problems at Twitter” and will stick to his own social-media platform, offering an initial response to Elon Musk’s poll on whether to reinstate the former president’s account.
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Tatum Hunter / Washington Post:
Victims of hacked Facebook accounts say Meta’s customer support is largely unhelpful; Meta has no new initiatives for helping people recover their accounts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/21/hacked-facebook-account/
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10 Things You Should Never Post On Social Media
https://awarenessact.com/10-things-you-should-never-post-on-social-media-ever/
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Joseph Bernstein / New York Times:
A look at journa.host, a Mastodon server for journalists begun by Planet Money’s Adam Davidson, currently with ~2,000 members and $12,000 in Tow Center funding — Journa.host promises to be a new “reliable home for journalists.” What happens when they move in?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/style/mastodon-twitter-adam-davidson.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.digimarkkinointi.fi/blogi/milloin-tuloksia-somemarkkinoinnilla
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://media.sanoma.fi/kirjoituksia-markkinoinnista/2022-11-08-tavoitteesta-tulokseen-nain-hyodynnat-liikkuvaa-kuvaa
Tomi Engdahl says:
Facebook Pixel Helper
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/facebook-pixel-helper/fdgfkebogiimcoedlicjlajpkdmockpc
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Platformer:
Internal messages: Twitter’s EMEA ad revenue dropped 15% YoY and weekly bookings are down 49%; source: Blue is delayed as Twitter seeks to skirt App Store fees — Revenues are in free fall, employees say. Can Musk turn the tide? — and Zoë Schiffer
Twitter’s advertising losses are piling up
Revenues are in free fall, employees say. Can Musk turn the tide?
https://www.platformer.news/p/twitters-advertising-losses-are-piling
On Monday morning, a revenue analyst for Twitter in Europe shared some disheartening news. “We are seeing a significant decline in bookings,” the analyst posted in Slack, before sharing the numbers. Twitter’s ad revenue in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) is down 15 percent year over year, he said, and weekly bookings are down 49 percent, according to screenshots shared with Platformer.
It was a grim update to an already dire set of forecasts. On October 31, in a Google Sheet created to track advertisers who had paused their campaigns amidst Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of the company, analysts found that $15.7 million in EMEA revenue was already at risk. That included $12 million of anticipated losses in the United Kingdom, the company’s largest market in the region.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
AWS launches Clean Rooms, a service to help users inside an advertising or marketing organization share data without inadvertently sharing raw or personal data
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/29/aws-gets-data-clean-rooms-for-analytics-data/
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Olivia Carville / Bloomberg:
A look at TikTok’s role in spreading the “blackout challenge”, leading some kids to choke themselves to death, as critics say the company could be doing more
TikTok’s Viral Challenges Keep Luring Young Kids to Their Deaths
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-11-30/is-tiktok-responsible-if-kids-die-doing-dangerous-viral-challenges?leadSource=uverify%20wall
Children are dying from the blackout challenge. Why isn’t the world’s most popular app doing more to protect them?
Tomi Engdahl says:
Musk’s moves to allow hate speech and misinformation on Twitter appear to violate European law.
EU Threatens Twitter Ban Unless Musk Ramps Up Moderation Tactics, Report Says
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/11/30/eu-threatens-twitter-ban-unless-musk-ramps-up-moderation-tactics-report-says/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Gordie
The European Union has issued a warning to Twitter owner Elon Musk saying the platform will be banned unless it tightens its moderation policies and eliminates its “arbitrary” approach to reinstating banned users, according to the Financial Times, after Musk significantly loosened rules prohibiting hate speech and disinformation.
Thierry Breton, who is in charge of enforcing the EU’s digital laws, told Musk on Wednesday Twitter risks being in violation of the Digital Services Act, which requires social media platforms to remove hate speech and bans ads targeting people based on political beliefs.
Breton also said Musk must agree to an “extensive independent audit” of the platform, the Financial Times reported, citing people with knowledge of talks between the two.
Musk reportedly responded by calling the Digital Services Act “very sensible,” and he has vowed Twitter’s policies will comply with applicable laws.
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Musk has indicated he will reinstate nearly all banned Twitter accounts, including those suspended for hate speech, after conducting a Twitter poll last week where 72.4% of respondents supported offering “general amnesty to suspended accounts.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Musk at Twitter has ‘huge work’ ahead to comply with EU rules, warns bloc
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/30/elon-musk-twitter-eu-dsa-warning/?tpcc=tcplusfacebook&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9sbS5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHY1KFwV9HTGJdjNpch7ozFBfWXt13sODX46mYFORlEJuRKeuBSceeI3ToT7utZ7qJicpYVLBll9WjGIq6HCYbFf1mwlsbwMJmavsLXP_Jzf6A7UveUavsmSuscw0HtxiADOALxol7c5Nz1IltgpFD9iVbOLx1LoUPv4TSPIU9my
European Union regulators have fired another warning shot at Elon Musk over his erratic piloting of Twitter since his takeover last month — saying he has “huge work” ahead if the social media site is to avoid falling foul of major new governance rules for digital services which entered into force earlier this month.
Reminder: Breaches of the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) can attract penalties of up to 6% of global annual turnover.
So the EU’s assessment that Musk-owned Twitter has its work cut out to comply with the DSA is not exactly rocket science.
Putting out its read on the outcome of a meeting today between Musk and the EU’s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton — who obtained a ‘thumbs up’ from the billionaire, back in May, verbally affirming the bloc’s plan for Internet regulation that the EU is tenaciously interpreting as a bona fide commitment to DSA compliance — the EU said Breton told Musk that Twitter will have to significantly increase efforts if it’s to pass the grade.
In a statement attributed to Breton after the meeting, the commissioner said (emphasis Breton’s):
“I welcome Elon Musk’s statements of intent to get Twitter 2.0 ready for the DSA. I am pleased to hear that he has read it carefully and considers it as a sensible approach to implement on a worldwide basis. But let’s also be clear that there is still huge work ahead, as Twitter will have to implement transparent user policies, significantly reinforce content moderation and protect freedom of speech, tackle disinformation with resolve, and limit targeted advertising.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Kolumni: Nettiguru sen sanoo: Some tuhoaa elämäsi!
Sanna Ukkola
Miksi monet maailman tunnetuimmista teknologiaguruista ovat kieltäneet somen lapsiltaan, kysyy Iltalehden kolumnisti Sanna Ukkola.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/5d2bbdc4-7d68-4860-8138-4b1617d5a3a0
Ensin kaverini Lili havahtui siihen, että hän istui mykkänä 9-vuotiaan tyttärensä vierellä. Tyttö katsoi Youtubea, Lili selasi somea. Äiti ja tytär istuivat vierekkäin, mutta syvällä omissa kuplissaan.
“Tuli haikea fiilis. Elämä menee ohi, tyttö kasvaa ja mä oon Facebookissa. En tiedä yhtään, mitä se ajattelee, vaikka se on 30 sentin päässä minusta”, Lili selittää minulle.
Lili teki radikaalin päätöksen: hän päätti lopettaa somen kokonaan. Hän lakkautti tilinsä Facebookissa ja Instagramissa ja poisti Whatsappin kännykästä.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Web3 developer platform Fleek raises $25M led by Polychain Capital
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/web3-developer-platform-fleek-raises-25m-led-by-polychain-capital/?tpcc=tcplusfacebook
Web3 developer platform Fleek has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Polychain Capital, the company shared exclusively with TechCrunch.
Additional investors in the round include Coinbase Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Protocol Labs, Arweave, North Island Ventures, Distributed Global, The LAO and Argonautic Ventures.
The startup is aiming to build an interface and protocol layer “to make the base layer of web[3] services” like storage, hosting and billing accessible to anyone, according to its website.
https://fleek.co/about/
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Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Twitter offers advertisers generous incentives, including matching $500K to $1M in spending in 2022, in a bid to jump start its faltering business
Twitter Offers Advertisers Generous Incentives After Many Marketers Left Platform
Advertisers booking at least $500,000 in incremental spending would be matched, up to a $1 million cap
https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-offers-advertisers-generous-incentives-after-many-marketers-left-platform-11669922354?mod=djemalertNEWS
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.spamhaus.com/resource-center/confirmed-opt-in-or-opt-out-ensuring-quality-over-quantity/
Send a single message describing who you are, the date and time they completed the form, and the IP address of the user that completed the form, and ask the recipient to confirm that the address belongs to them and they want to receive your mailings. If they don’t confirm, never contact that address again.
Stick to the original purpose that the recipient gave you their email address: if they just want to get order updates, do that and don’t send them ads or anything else. Expanding the scope of messages you send them will get you blocked.
Remove unsubscribes instantly and with no hassle.
Set up SPF and DKIM and DMARC records for your domain. Confirm that abuse@ and postmaster@ your domain are actively being read.
Sign up with abuse feedback loops at various providers like hotmail, gmail, yahoo, Fastmail, etc. to get spam reports sent directly to you.
Consider using an outsourced vendor to handle most of this, since your system likely doesn’t have the established reputation and may get blocked anyway.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Time when the web page is loaded to when the submit button is pressed. Too fast may be a bot. If that happens put up a captcha. If it is for existing customers put up a simple account login system.
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Use a service https://mailchimp.com/help/add-a-signup-form-to-your-website/
Tomi Engdahl says:
There’s no foolproof way to avoid spam filters, legit emails can get caught too. If these are just marketing emails, just let them go. If they’re emails people are expecting or needing to get, just let them know when they’re filling out your form to either whitelist the address or check their spam if they don’t get it in their inbox. Save yourself the headache.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://parcero.fi/blogi/mika-ihmeen-nano-mikro-makro-ja-megavaikuttaja/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paid-social&utm_campaign=blogi-vaikuttajamarkkinointi&fbclid=IwAR0gUsfjiuOMxBtzJI6_U0jQRqCmF6HIbtR4qgAsNhoC7iqmX-Xgd_cljr4
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jamstack-arkkitehtuuri
Haluaisitko huippunopeasti latautuvan sivuston aukottomalla tietoturvalla ja ilman huolta palvelinkapasiteetista? Olemme rakentaneet useita sivustoja ns. Jamstack-arkkitehtuurilla, jolla saavutetaan edellä mainitut edut ja paljon muuta.
https://www.knowit.fi/palvelut/experience/web-ja-e-commerce/digitaaliset-palvelut-ja-alustat/jamstack/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Meta cannot run advertising based on personal data and will need users’ consent to do so, according to a confidential EU privacy watchdog decision, a person familiar with matter said on Tuesday.
Meta cannot run ads based on personal data, EU privacy watchdog rules – source
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-cannot-run-ads-based-personal-data-eu-privacy-watchdog-rules-source-2022-12-06/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
BRUSSELS, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Meta (META.O) cannot run advertising based on personal data and will need users’ consent to do so, according to a confidential EU privacy watchdog decision, a person familiar with matter said on Tuesday.
The Irish privacy regulator, which will issue the final decision, has been given a month by EU privacy watchdog the European Data Protection Board to do so. Its decision is likely to include hefty fines, the person said.
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Suomalaisen paikallislehdet joutuivat Facebookin algoritmien hampaisiin – Fingerpori oli toisessa tapauksessa liikaa
Janne Heleskoski6.12.2022 14:45Sosiaalinen mediaTekoälySensuuriDigitalous
Kangasalan Sanomat kertoo, ettei ole useampaan viikkoon voinut linkittää juttujaan Facebookiin. Syyksi epäillään ilkivaltaa, jota somepalvelu ei osaa käsitellä.
https://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/uutiset/suomalaisen-paikallislehdet-joutuivat-facebookin-algoritmien-hampaisiin-fingerpori-oli-toisessa-tapauksessa-liikaa/d3e6bfa7-9cd8-4abb-9b52-a8fae2ee7dfe
Tomi Engdahl says:
Googlelle uusi määräys: hakutuloksista poistettava vääriksi todistettavat tiedot
Suvi Korhonen9.12.2022 08:11|päivitetty9.12.2022 08:54HakukoneetYksityisyys
Yhtiö kertoo toimineensa linjauksen mukaisesti jo ennen torstain päätöstä.
https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/googlelle-uusi-maarays-hakutuloksista-poistettava-vaariksi-todistettavat-tiedot/86432e54-f6f5-4254-b373-b7bcfd48496b
Googlen tulee jatkossa poistaa väärät tiedot hakutuloksistaan, mikäli käyttäjät asiasta yhtiölle todisteiden kanssa valittavat. Euroopan unionin tuomioistuin päätti asiasta torstaina, uutistoimisto Reuters kirjoittaa.
Aiemmin sama tuomioistuin on linjannut, että ihmisillä on oikeus saada hakukonetuloksista poistetuksi vanhentuneet tiedot itseään koskien. Päätökseen viitataan nimityksellä “oikeus tulla unohdetuksi”.
Tällä kertaa kaksi sijoitusyhtiön johtajaa nosti oikeusjutun, koska hakutulokset ohjasivat etsijät artikkeleihin, joissa kritisoitiin yritysten sijoitusmallia. Googlen emoyhtiö Alphabet kieltäytyi, koska yhtiön mukaan se ei voi tietää, ovatko artikkelin tiedot vääriä.
Johtajat halusivat myös kasvokuvansa pois hakutulosten esikatselusta.
EU-tuomioistuin päätti, että hakukoneiden tulee poistaa todistettavasti väärät tiedot tuloksista. Todisteeksi ei tarvita oikeuden päätöstä: linjauksen mukaan helpommin hankittavien todisteiden pitää riittää.
Googlen mukaan kyseiset esikatselukuvat ja linkit eivät ole enää pitkään aikaan olleet näkyvissä hakutuloksissa. Yhtiön edustaja kommentoi, että yhtiö on yrittänyt tasapainotella järkevän linjan hakemisessa informaationvapauden ja ihmisten oikeuden tulla unohdetuksi välillä.
Google must remove ‘manifestly inaccurate’ data, EU top court says
https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-must-remove-data-search-results-if-user-proves-it-is-wrong-eu-top-court-2022-12-08/
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Miles Klee / Rolling Stone:
No emoji better suited 2022′s ups and downs than the saluting face, used by laid-off Twitter employees and many others to express irony, reassurance, and more
We Couldn’t Have Made It Through This Year Without the Saluting Emoji
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/saluting-face-best-emoji-2022-1234642464/
The stern little face has become an unlikely beacon of solidarity and support — while making us laugh every time
Many emojis approved last fall came into widespread usage this year, with the new faces proving especially popular. The smiling, holding-back-tears face conveyed our most sentimental selves, while the melting face spoke to a feeling of disintegration in the face of overwhelming reality. The hand-over-mouth and peeking-through-fingers faces were perfect for moments of shock and horror.
But, in the end, no emoji was better suited for the ups and downs 2022 than the saluting face. Everyone from an ex-pro Call of Duty gamer to a Berkeley City Council member to musician Zephani Jong found themselves obsessed with the stalwart little expression. More than one fan has claimed that the emoji changed their lives, helping them persevere through trial and tribulation.
Recently, the saluting face became a symbol of solidarity among Twitter employees fired by incoming CEO and owner Elon Musk, as well as those who quit in protest of his frenetic management style. It became such a common shorthand for leaving the company that it appeared hundreds of times in internal Slack channels as remaining staff members opted for a three-month severance rather than continue working nonstop to achieve Musk’s ever-shifting objectives.
In that moment, an emoji often deployed with a dose of irony turned curiously sincere.
It was as if all the previous jokes about the emoji keeping us centered, tough, or unflappable had not been jokes at all. When we digitally salute each other with this character, we are indeed communicating a kind of reassurance. Yes, the stern look makes us laugh — Apple‘s vertically halved iOS version is even funnier in its rigidity — but behind the amusing surface is an honest pledge of loyalty. We attribute significance to the saluting emoji because we recognize a duty to our loved ones, and to humanity at large. We use it because we are still here, in the fight.
https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1fae1.svg
Tomi Engdahl says:
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google announces Chrome will get a Memory Saver mode, which promises to cut memory usage by up to 30%, and an Energy Saver mode, rolling out in the coming weeks — Google today announced two new performance settings in its Chrome browser: Memory Saver and Energy Saver.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/08/chrome-gets-memory-and-energy-saver-modes/
Google today announced two new performance settings in its Chrome browser: Memory Saver and Energy Saver.
Modern browsers eat up a lot of memory, and while that’s not a problem if you have 32GB of RAM, Chrome using multiple gigabytes of your memory can quickly slow your machine down if you’re on a machine with lower specs. The Memory Saver mode promises to reduce Chrome’s memory usage by up to 30% by putting inactive tabs to sleep. The tabs will simply reload when you need them again. The Energy Saver mode, meanwhile, limits background activity and visual effects for sites with animations and videos when your laptop’s battery level drops below 20%.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph:
Some NFTs minted on FTX now show blank images instead of the original art as the metadata points to an FTX.US domain used for a bankruptcy restructuring website
NFTs minted on FTX break, highlighting Web2 hosting flaws
https://cointelegraph.com/news/nfts-minted-on-ftx-break-highlighting-web2-hosting-flaws
NFTs hosted on FTX platform were affected by the firm’s collapse, showing blank images instead of the original art.
The FTX collapse highlighted many flaws in the crypto industry. Now, the effects of the FTX debacle have broken into the nonfungible token (NFT) space with users unable to view their FTX-hosted NFTs.
In a tweet, Solana engineer jac0xb.sol pointed out how the metadata of FTX-hosted NFTs now points to a restructuring website that gives out information about bankruptcy proceedings. According to jac0xb.sol, the NFTs minted on FTX were hosted using a Web2 application programming interface (API), resulting in images not showing.
After the FTX exchange filed for bankruptcy, the FTX.US domain was entirely redirected to the bankruptcy proceeding page. Because of this, NFT owners are still able to see that their NFTs exist. However, images cannot be seen anymore, even when viewing them within wallets or listing them on NFT trading platforms.
With this, jac0xb.sol also called out to collections that are still hosting metadata on Amazon Web Services, suggesting that there is a “lesson to be learned” with how FTX hosted their NFTs using a Web2 API service. In addition, some users even commented that this highlights problems with Web3 companies relying on centralized services like AWS or the Google Cloud Platform.
On Aug. 5, NFT executives brought up the topic of NFTs not living on the blockchain. In a Cointelegraph interview, Jonathan Victor, the Web3 storage lead at Protocol Labs, and Alex Salnikov, the co-founder of Rarible, explained that technically, the tokens are stored somewhere else. The duo highlighted that main chains often are very limited in size and that it costs more to store data on the blockchain.
Despite the troubles brought about by the FTX collapse, the NFT industry remains confident in the future of the space. On Nov. 22, various players within the NFT space spoke with Cointelegraph and expressed their confidence that the space will eventually recover. The executives highlighted that it’s important for the NFT community to focus on bringing more utility to their collections.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
How conservatives redefined free speech in the social media era, using the First Amendment to claim a “Right to Post” on platforms run by private companies — Early December might have marked the first time anyone ever asserted a First Amendment right to see the president’s son’s penis …
Why Conservatives Invented a ‘Right to Post’
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/legal-right-to-post-free-speech-social-media/672406/
You have a right to free speech as long as you are saying what conservatives want you to say.
Early December might have marked the first time anyone ever asserted a First Amendment right to see the president’s son’s penis, an argument that the Framers likely did not anticipate.
In November, the billionaire Elon Musk purchased Twitter, proclaiming himself a “free speech absolutist,” in defiance of a rather extensive record of retaliating against speech he opposes. A month later, Musk, citing five tweets that had been deleted at the Biden campaign’s request in October 2020, asked, “If this isn’t a violation of the Constitution’s First Amendment, what is?”
The insistence that social-media companies should not be allowed to make editorial decisions about what is welcome on their platforms, that it violated the Constitution for a publisher to reject a story it saw as unreliable, that a private company is obligated to let you use its platform to hurl racist slurs at strangers from behind the safety of a screen—this understanding reflects belief in a new constitutional right. Most important, this new right supersedes the free-speech rights of everyone else: the conservative right to post.
Deciding what or what not to publish, the justices concluded, was an essential component of free speech.
“The choice of material to go into a new paper, and the decisions made as to limitations on the size and content of the paper, and treatment of public issues and public officials—whether fair or unfair—constitute the exercise of editorial control and judgment,” the justices wrote in 1974. “It has yet to be demonstrated how governmental regulation of this crucial process can be exercised consistent with First Amendment guarantees of a free press as they have evolved to this time.”
Tornillo, in other words, did not have a right to post on someone else’s platform, even if the platform was powerful and influential, or even if it was politically biased.
“The First Amendment has always been intended to stop government regulation, not private regulation,” Mukund Rathi, an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told me. “It’s true that many users are often frustrated by the way that private publishers, including social-media platforms, regulate speech. They’re often frustrated when platforms take down their content, or deprioritize, or demonetize their content. But these are all things that platforms have the right to do. And this is something that the Supreme Court has recognized going back centuries.”
But that was before social media, and before a right-wing federal judge butchered the First Amendment and assembled a conservative right to post out of its corpse.
For the past few decades, conservatives argued that virtually any restrictions on corporate speech violated the First Amendment.
Conservatives have previously classified interfering with editorial control as a form of “muzzling,” even when businesses are trying to avoid regulation that has little to do with expression. After Donald Trump took office in 2017, his administration repealed Obama-era net-neutrality regulations on the grounds that telecom companies had a free-speech right to decide what information gets transmitted over the internet, as an exercise of editorial discretion—a much broader power over what people can see on the web than social-media companies have. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has personally intervened in court on behalf of fossil-fuel companies whose First Amendment rights, he has argued, would be violated if the companies were forced to make public their own internal arguments about the reality of climate change.
The consistency here lies in the belief that corporations and people have freedom of speech as long as they exercise that right on behalf of right-wing causes. And that is where social media and the conservative right to post come in.
Regurgitating popular right-wing legal copypasta on social media, Oldham’s opinion compared social-media platforms to “common carriers” such as phone lines and railroads—which, coupled with the current conservative position on net neutrality, is a little like arguing that cable television is not a common carrier but individual channels are. Oldham determined that the law was constitutional because “we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say.” The court, in other words, embraced the idea that the state of Texas has a right to determine what people say. The First Amendment bars state censorship. It does not prevent private outlets from deciding what ideas are worth publishing.
Texas made no secret at the time of the law’s passage as to its purpose. “Social media websites have become our modern-day public square,” Governor Abbott said in a 2021 press release after signing the bill. “They are a place for healthy public debate where information should be able to flow freely—but there is a dangerous movement by social media companies to silence conservative viewpoints and ideas.” A similar law in Florida was announced by Governor Ron DeSantis as a strike against the “leftist media.”
The First Amendment was never meant to prevent private actors from deciding which ideas are worthy of elevation or abandonment. Its purpose is to ensure that the government does not make that determination for them, even when that choice ends up being wrong.
“Both of the laws are, in their central provisions, attempts to override the platforms’ editorial judgment,”
Even if you think that social-media platforms should be politically “neutral,” every platform has a right to decide what that means; a state imposing its own view of “neutrality” infringes on the right of an outlet to define what neutrality is. If the government can tell The New York Times what is “fit to print” or Fox News what it thinks is “fair and balanced,” then the First Amendment offers no protection.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Russian trolls found manipulating audiences on Trumps Truth Social, new research finds https://therecord.media/russian-trolls-found-manipulating-audiences-on-trumps-truth-social-new-research-finds/
Russian operators linked to election interference in the United States have been identified manipulating audiences on alternative right-wing social media platforms, including Donald Trumps Truth Social.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Saavutettavuuden valvonta puhuttaa. Osaa organisaatioista siihen velvoittaa laki, mutta monet organisaatiot ovat myös oma-aloitteisesti ottaneet tehtäväkseen varmistaa digitaalisten palveluidensa saavutettavuuden. Riippumatta kuulutko lain piiriin tai et, on saavutettavuuden toteutumisesta ainoastaan hyötyä. Lue saavutettavuusasiantuntijamme Kari Selovuon blogiartikkelista eri valvontakeinot saavutettavuuden varmistamiseksi omavalvonnasta alkaen. https://corellia.fi/saavutettavuuden-valvonta/
Tomi Engdahl says:
YouTube will send a notification to users if their comment is abusive
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/13/youtube-will-send-a-notification-to-users-if-their-comment-is-abusive/?tpcc=tcplusfacebook
Toxic and hateful comments on YouTube have been a constant headache for the company, creators and users. The company has previously attempted to curtail this by introducing features such as showing an alert to individuals at the time of posting so that they could be more considerate. Now, the streaming service is introducing a new feature that will more aggressively nudge such individuals of their abusive comments and take broader actions.
YouTube says it will send a notification to people whose abusive comments have been removed for violating the platform’s rules. If despite receiving the notification a user continues to post abusive comments, the service will ban them from posting any more comments for 24 hours.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
The son of a murdered Ethiopian professor files a lawsuit against Meta in Kenya, alleging Meta’s algorithms promote hateful and violent content for engagement
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/13/ethiopia-slain-professor-lawsuit-meta-kenya/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
The US Supreme Court asks the Biden administration to weigh in on lyrics website Genius’ attempt to revive a lawsuit over Google’s alleged theft of its work
Supreme Court asks for Biden administration’s views in Google copyright case
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/supreme-court-asks-biden-administrations-views-google-copyright-case-2022-12-12/
Genius’ breach case against Google dismissed based on copyright law
Lyric site said decision could give big tech free pass to copy content
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked the Biden administration to weigh in on song-lyric website Genius’ attempt to revive a lawsuit over Google’s alleged theft of its work.
The justices are considering whether to hear ML Genius Holdings LLC’s bid to overturn a U.S. appeals court’s ruling that its case against Google LLC was preempted by federal copyright law.
Genius, formerly known as Rap Genius, keeps a database of song lyrics and annotations maintained by volunteers. It sued Google and its partner LyricFind in New York state court in 2019 for allegedly posting its lyric transcriptions at the top of Google search results without permission.
Genius argued Google violated its terms of service by stealing its work and reposting it on Google webpages, decreasing traffic to Genius’ site.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in March affirmed a decision to dismiss the case, finding Genius’ breach-of-contract claims were based on copyright concerns and should have been brought under copyright law.
Genius does not own the copyrights to the lyrics themselves, which are usually held by the artists or publishers.
Genius asked the high court in August to review the decision. It said the 2nd Circuit went against the majority of other circuits and could allow big tech companies to steal content from sites that aggregate user-created information including Reddit, eBay, Wikipedia and others with no repercussions.
“It serves no public purpose — and certainly no purpose that furthers the Copyright Act’s aims — to bar these companies from enforcing their contracts so that behemoths like Google can vacuum up content and increase their internet dominance,” Genius said.
Google responded in November that it holds licenses to the lyrics from the copyright holders, and that Genius wants to “ignore the true copyright owners and invent new rights through a purported contract.”
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Passkeys Now Fully Supported in Google Chrome
https://www.securityweek.com/passkeys-now-fully-supported-google-chrome
Google has made passkey support available in the stable version of Chrome after initially rolling it out to Chrome Canary in October.
Passkeys use biometric verification to authenticate users and are meant to replace the use of passwords, which can be easily compromised.
Usable with both applications and websites, passkeys can be synced between devices but cannot be reused and cannot be leaked. Passkeys work cross-platform.
Passkeys offer the same experience that password autofill does, but provide the advantage of passwordless authentication, eliminating the risks associated with phishing or the use of poor passwords.
“Passkeys are a significantly safer replacement for passwords and other phishable authentication factors. They cannot be reused, don’t leak in server breaches, and protect users from phishing attacks,” Google notes.
The latest version of Chrome comes with support for passkeys on Windows 11, macOS, and Android, the internet giant announced.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Passkeys are only available for websites that provide support for them, via the WebAuthn API.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/13/decentralized-discourse-how-open-source-is-shaping-twitters-future/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Reuters:
Sources: some US banks that lent Elon Musk $13B to buy Twitter plan to book losses on the loans this quarter, as investors shy away from buying risky debt
Exclusive: Musk’s banks to book Twitter loan losses, avoid big hits -sources
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/musks-banks-book-twitter-loan-losses-avoid-big-hits-sources-2022-12-14/
NEW YORK, Dec 13 (Reuters) – Some of the banks that lent Elon Musk $13 billion to buy Twitter are preparing to book losses on the loans this quarter
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jack Dorsey:
Reacting to the “Twitter Files”, Jack Dorsey says attacking Twitter staff is dangerous, calls for an open social media protocol, and commits $1M/year to Signal
a native internet protocol for social media
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/jackjack/issues/a-native-internet-protocol-for-social-media-1503112
There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified.
I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:
Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
Only the original author may remove content they produce.
Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.
The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles. This is my fault alone, as I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020.
The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves. This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets).
I continue to believe there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time. Of course mistakes were made. But if we had focused more on tools for the people using the service rather than tools for us, and moved much faster towards absolute transparency, we probably wouldn’t be in this situation of needing a fresh reset (which I am supportive of). Again, I own all of this and our actions, and all I can do is work to make it right.
Back to the principles. Of course governments want to shape and control the public conversation, and will use every method at their disposal to do so, including the media. And the power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing. It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this, and that those tools are ultimately owned by the people. Allowing a government or a few corporations to own the public conversation is a path towards centralized control.
I’m a strong believer that any content produced by someone for the internet should be permanent until the original author chooses to delete it. It should be always available and addressable. Content takedowns and suspensions should not be possible. Doing so complicates important context, learning, and enforcement of illegal activity. There are significant issues with this stance of course, but starting with this principle will allow for far better solutions than we have today. The internet is trending towards a world were storage is “free” and infinite, which places all the actual value on how to discover and see content.
Which brings me to the last principle: moderation. I don’t believe a centralized system can do content moderation globally. It can only be done through ranking and relevance algorithms, the more localized the better. But instead of a company or government building and controlling these solely, people should be able to build and choose from algorithms that best match their criteria, or not have to use any at all. A “follow” action should always deliver every bit of content from the corresponding account, and the algorithms should be able to comb through everything else through a relevance lens that an individual determines. There’s a default “G-rated” algorithm, and then there’s everything else one can imagine.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/15/virtual-yule-log-brings-old-tradition-to-the-web/
https://webyulelog.com/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Twitter suspends journalists who have been covering Elon Musk and the company
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-suspends-journalists-covering-elon-musk-company-rcna62032
Musk joined a Twitter Space to say the suspensions were related to new rules banning private jet trackers. Twitter suspended an account that tweeted the whereabouts of his plane.
Twitter on Thursday evening suddenly suspended several high-profile journalists who cover the platform and Elon Musk, one of the richest people in the world, who acquired the company just a few months ago.
Hours after the suspensions took hold, Musk faced off with one of the journalists he suspended in a Twitter Space audio discussion before an audience of more than 30,000 listeners. The suspended journalist, along with several others, found a backdoor way onto the platform through the website’s audio function.
“You doxx, you get suspended. End of story. That’s it,” Musk said
The accounts of Ryan Mac of The New York Times, Donie O’Sullivan of CNN, Drew Harwell of The Washington Post, Matt Binder of Mashable, Micah Lee of The Intercept, Steve Herman of Voice of America and independent journalists Aaron Rupar, Keith Olbermann and Tony Webster had all been suspended as of Thursday evening.
The Twitter account for Mastodon, a platform billed as a Twitter alternative, was also suspended early Thursday evening. Twitter accounts operated by NBC News journalists were unable to tweet any links to Mastodon pages. Mastodon was, however, trending on Twitter.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Uh… That’s weird…
Quote user comment:
“This is what actually happened: Douche bag “journalists”, or corporate propagandists, decided to coordinate and post a link knowing that would get them banned. Thinking this would prove a point, or some shit. I don’t know or understand. It’s so retarded. Free speech means the right to harass?”
Twitter suspends Mastodon’s account and bans links to Mastodon servers
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-suspends-mastodon-twitter-account-over-elonjet-tracking/?tpcc=tcplusfacebook
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/14/elon-jet-the-twitter-account-tracking-elon-musks-flights-was-permanently-suspended/?tpcc=tcplusfacebook
Tomi Engdahl says:
‘Google is done’: World’s most powerful AI chatbot offers human-like alternative to search engines
OpenAI’s latest artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT can also write TV scripts and explain complex theories
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-chatbot-chatgpt-google-openai-b2237834.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Twitter could face an EU-wide ban for multiple violations under new digital rules.
European Union Official Warns Elon Musk Of Sanctions Over Twitter Banning Journalists
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2022/12/16/european-union-official-warns-elon-musk-of-sanctions-over-twitter-banning-journalists/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Gordie&sh=44cbb7b03578
Tomi Engdahl says:
Censorship, lockdowns, arbitrary bans — Twitter is turning into the China of social media
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/16/censorship-lockdowns-arbitrary-bans-twitter-is-turning-into-the-china-of-social-media/?tpcc=ecfb2020&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9sbS5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABmQXdMbLNIsZL-db8WRu9SNoiBig_VLrgMbmIhklGYATAcZVVpVdxYOyhuFuSxLn-4wGlCyL1iV8_-4QZ0-OrqUUpPsJMLSdEl2AVVhkT3rZ1VL7rlQbz-9VtxECnT_6fZ3exJGBcFwA_mVe9wCzPqUiNY7WPlISKe9ktRceiNQ
Wow, that was quick.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter and took it private in October, I figured we’d have a while before things took a turn. Then, after he laid off about half the company’s employees, that estimate shortened a bit.
Now, after last night’s Spaces brouhaha, during which Musk confronted journalists he banned for retweeting links about the ElonJet tracker and then abruptly killed the feature entirely, that timeline has moved up considerably.
To be clear: Twitter isn’t going to die tomorrow or next week or even next year. But given how the last few days have gone on the platform, I’m not quite sure how long Twitter will remain a viable platform. It’s turning into the China of social media, full of censorship, arbitrary bans and groups of users/accounts that leap to Musk’s defense whenever they feel his narrative is being undermined.